Technology

Smartr365 and Twenty7Tec extend strategic partnership

Smartr365 and Twenty7Tec have agreed a long-term extension to their existing working relationship. Twenty7Tec’s...

The Moving Hub partners with the Property Jungle

Conveyancing platform The Moving Hub has teamed up with the Property Jungle, a provider...

Phoebus Software unveils Innovation Hub

Phoebus Software Ltd (PSL) has introduced an Innovation Hub to concentrate on providing digital...

CA responds to digital identity consultation

The Conveyancing Association (CA) has responded to the Department for Digital, Media, Culture &...

Mortgage Brain appoints sales and marketing director

Mortgage Brain has appointed Neil Wyatt as its new sales and marketing director. Wyatt has over...

UTB to use facial recognition for ID verification

United Trust Bank (UTB) has introduced an electronic ‘facial recognition’ ID verification service through...

Money Group to use OMS System across all platforms

Mortgage processing CRM platform One Mortgage System (OMS) has been adopted by all of the...

Smartr365 to integrate SmartrCriteria search tool

Smartr365 is integrating Legal & General Mortgage Club’s digital mortgage criteria searching tool, SmartrCriteria,...

Maria Harris to join Twenty7Tec from Atom bank

Twenty7Tec has revealed that Maria Harris will join the company on 1 October as...

eKeeper integrates conveyancing into broker CRM

eKeeper says it has streamlined the conveyancing process with the latest release of its...

SmartSearch one of Britain’s fastest-growing tech companies

Anti-Money Laundering (AML) firm SmartSearch is one of the fastest-growing tech companies in Britain,...

Complete FS offers secure communication tech for customers

Complete FS has announced the adoption of Mailock, which encrypts email between itself, its...

Equifinance agrees deal with Phoebus Software

Second charge mortgage lender Equifinance has signed into a five-year contract with Phoebus Software...

Affinity Mortgages partners with Mortgage Brain

Mortgage adviser, Affinity Mortgages, has adopted Mortgage Brain as a technology partner. Affinity will...

COMMENT

If AI gives us more time to think, we must learn how to think well

The great promise of AI in financial services is usually expressed in terms of what it can remove. Less administration, less duplication, fewer manual...

The right scrutiny is a precursor of growing lending safely

Credit markets have always had to accommodate change, but there are periods when the assumptions on which they have been built begin to move...

Only one in five of your clients thinks your fee was justified

You know the moment. 40 minutes in. Gone well. They like you, you like them, everyone's getting on. Then you have to say the fee. And...

I’m 49. My dad’s 73. Between us we’ve found the hole in later life lending

I turn 50 in December, and the marketing has already started. Funeral plans, over-50s life cover, “guaranteed acceptance” adverts wedged between the football highlights....

Buying scale was phase one. What happens next?

Mortgage distribution is in a race for scale. Capital wants market share. Consolidators want distribution. Networks want advisers. Good businesses are commanding serious valuations. If I...

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Badenoch pledges no IHT or stamp duty on family homes

Kemi Badenoch has pledged to remove inheritance tax from family homes and scrap stamp...

RICS: Housing market recovery falters as buyer demand weakens

The UK housing market lost momentum in September as rising interest rate expectations weighed...

Cost pressures hold back demand for energy-efficient home upgrades

More than a third of Britons want to improve the energy efficiency of their...

TPFG buys 25% stake in property and mortgage AI business Enteka

The Property Franchise Group (TPFG) has taken a 25% stake in Enteka AI as...

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